
Plotting Fear: The Uses of Terror in Peru
In July 2000, I was invited by a colleague to attend a conference at San Marcos University in Lima at ...

Women at War
In June of 1986, I meet with a leader of the Communist Party of Peru (PCP), the movement known as ...

TARGETING THE “REVISIONIST” LEFT
IT WAS A FEW MINUTES BEFORE NOON ON APRIL 8, 1987 when a Senderista "annihilation commando" entered San Juan de ...

Coca’s Shining Path
JANUARY 19, 1988. THE ENTIRE POPULATION of Barranca is in the village square, along with resi- dents of 15 other ...

PERUVIAN Politics A Historic Shift to the Left
LIMA, Peru-Although the defeat of the center Right government party. Popular Action, was expected in the April 14 Peruvian presidential ...

There Is No Other Way” An Interview with Luís Arce Borja
Luis Arce Boraa is the editor of El Diario, a pro-Sendero newspaper published in Lima. He was interviewed in Bel- ...

The Revolution Behind Bars
MOST OF THE YEAR LIMA IS GRAY AND SAD. This is particularly striking at the city's edge because the desert ...

PUNISH, BUT DON’T KILL
OCTOBER 1982. IN THE COMMUNITY OF NIN- acushma, of the department of Huancavelica, a guer- rilla column is holding one ...